Danse X Motion Capture
2024
Action led by Frenetic Arts in May 2024 as part of the development of the documentary Walking With Animators, in partnership with Ecole Georges Méliès & Ballet Julien Lestel.
In dance, as in animation, walking is an essential part of the process. We learn to walk, stand and explore the possibilities of our bodies. It’s a natural, inherent and personal movement. Dance allows us to exploit this potential, to embody situations, ideas, personalities and characters. It’s infinite.
We imagined this event as a sharing experience and a laboratory for experimentation. Our aim was to give everyone the opportunity to find inspiration, expand their knowledge and enrich their artistic careers:
- Through exploration of the theme of walking, its evolution in movement and its translation into dance and choreographic language;
- Through the use of motion capture to concretize and explore this theme via a digital medium;
- And participation in the making of the documentary.
Based in Orly, south of Paris, the École Georges Méliès has been training “visual artisans” for 25 years.
Its director and founder, Franck Petitta, talks about the school’s DNA, how it has adapted to contemporary technological challenges, and how he sees the future, as his school is one of the 68 winners of the “France 2030 – La Grande Fabrique de l’image” call for projects launched by the CNC.
Julien Lestel :The Ballet Julien Lestel was created in January 2007 at the Espace Pierre Cardin, with the performance of his first choreography Les Âmes Frères. Today, the Ballet Julien Lestel brings together twelve dancers from different backgrounds, and its repertoire includes more than twenty choreographies performed in France and abroad, in which each dancer can reveal his or her individuality.
“My research is centered on the creation of fluid, unrestrained gestures, but also of broken movements with a break in rhythm, so that the spectator can be taken towards an emotion and at the same time drawn into a dynamic where power, sensuality and poetry come together, enhanced by the performers.”
(Julien Lestel)
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